Soon the fleet arrived at the towns near the border of the Riga continent, everyone was prepared for the fight to start, but nothing happened, the scouts sent to investigate informed that there were no trace villagers, but all their belongings were all still there.
Mylene sighed.
“Don’t waste time, there won’t be any people in the whole continent besides the royal capital, where do you think the corrupted beasts come from… that guy probably gathered all the people from Riga and turned them into fearless soldiers for the upcoming war”.
“That explains why there were so many corrupted attacking Hawthorn city before, still that makes things easier cause now I don’t have to worry about collateral damage”, thought Aster.
The fleet kept advancing and the same situation repeated in all the towns and cities along the way, Lilia saw that the girls taking it the whole situation with calm attitudes and she nodded.
“This is the reality of the world we cultivators live in, the strong prey at the weak”.
The only one that looked a bit uncomfortable with the situation was Kana, but she didn0t say anything, out of all the presents in the room, she knew she was the one that has experienced less of the cruel world.
Aster of course noticed she wanted to say something and he patted her head.
“You are a good girl Kana, unfortunately this world is not kind to that type of people”.
Kana lowered her head feeling she was being too naive, but Aster’s next words made her smile.
“It’s a good thing that you are a part of my family now, so you can be however you want to be and if the world tries to go against it… then I will force it to accept you, just remember that our family is all that matters”.
Kana cheered up, she hugged Aster and then sat on his lap to let him spoil her.
The royal capital of the Riga continent is a city called Makir, normally there is zero tolerance to loud sounds and public disorder, but today things were completely different, because there were no more public.
The city was completely flooded by corrupted beasts, the only exception was the royal castle where all the ones that shared the royal lineage and other high ranked people were having a “party”.
Amir Orkel was mounting one of the young princesses of the Riga family, his previous cunning expression was gone, the only emotion left was lust, the same applied to his adoptive father the elder Adil his fat was gone and he was practically only left bones and skin… just like all the other members of the sand mountain sect, with the only exception was the sea of knowledge cultivator which came to supervise the exploration, but was now sat next to the king of Riga smiling and drinking wine, David Orkel an early stage sea of knowledge cultivator.
“Brother Augustus, I hope this little offering of a mortal transcending cultivator to “power up”, the queen, is up to your liking”.
A tall man which was sitting in a throne was relaxing and enjoying the view of all his subordinates having fun, there was a young girl grinding her hips against him, if you looked closely, you will recognize her… as Kayla Rein.
The man was Augustus Riga the strongest king in the history of the Riga continent, and also the strongest corrupted having reached the peak of the genesis manifestation realm in terms of body cultivation.
Augustus slapped Kayla making her fall from his lap, he sipped up his pants and stood up from his throne before he handed a bottle with a black liquid to David.
“As we agreed, this is a portion of the lineage refined by my family, the same that is now running through my veins, that woman went to Luonto to take care of some problems that arrived from outside, fight alongside me and I will help you get rid of that patriarch and become the new head of your sect”.
David took the bottle and drank the contents; he suffered a transformation similar to the one that happened to Robert but his body compressed and he returned to his human appearance a second later.
The floor below David’s feet cracked he felt a huge amount of euphoria right now he immediately advanced from the early to the middle stage of the sea of knowledge ream, the bottleneck that prevented him from surpassing the patriarch of the sand mountain sect suddenly disappeared.
“Hahaha, this is amazing brother Augustus, I feel ten thousand years younger, my body is full with vigor of a youth again… but I can also feel that my lifespan has reduced”.
Augustus nodded.
“I told you about the side effects before, but don’t worry as long as we keep absorbing the vitality of others, our lifespan won’t reduce and with every advance we will get longer lives, so the problem solves itself in a pleasant way if you ask me”.
David smiled, he felt young again and that also included his manhood which he hasn’t used in so much time, so he decided to join the party but as he was about to choose a partner the whole castle trembled and the sounds of the corrupted beasts howling echoes through the whole city.
Augustus smiling expression immediately disappeared, his image flashed and he appeared outside of the castle, his eyes widened as he saw the barrier that protected his city… shattering like a weak glass.
He turned his head to the sky and saw from afar a young man and a woman floating there as if they were just enjoying the scene, Augustus gritted his teeth.
“That useless bitch, I should have used her as my resource, everyone to the spaceships now, David, Nolan you two come with me!!!”.
A moment ago.
Aster was having a casual conversation with Rya, when he felt the that the spaceship stopped moving, with a little pat Kana stood from his lap and he stood from the couch, a member of the staff came to inform the current situation.
“Sir, there is a barrier above the whole capital city, lord Sylas ordered us to ask you first if we use the spirit cannons of the spaceships to break it”.
Aster shook his head.
“Tell the old man that it’s not necessary, I will take it down”.
The official nodded and returned to the cabin of the captain to inform Sylas, Aster looked at Lilia and smiled.
“Mom, let’s go greet them the sooner we start this the earlier we will take a little vacation”.
Lilia laughed.
“Now that is a good motive to sink this continent so we I can have some fun with my darling ♥”.
Sarina nearly choked when she heard Lilia so casually mentioning destroying half of the continental mass of Prasil.
“Ahem, Lilia please don’t joke about that… the impact of something like that on the tectonic plates of Prasil will be devastating”.
Aster smiled at Sarina.
“Don’t worry, I won’t destroy your native planet, not intentionally at least hahaha”.
The lateral door of the spaceship opened and Aster followed by Lilia floated all the way until they were a few meters away from the barrier.
Lilia sat cross legged in the air and gave her evaluation of the barrier to her son.
“This barrier can easily withstand the attacks of a sea of knowledge cultivator, a genesis manifestation should be able to break it, but it would take a couple of attacks which will alert the people inside, so how are you going to deal with it darling ♥”.
Aster contemplated things for moment, he extended his right hand and a sword appeared on it, unlike the ones he has previously used this one had a wilder design, it had a curved form and it was broader and wider than the “training swords” he normally uses.
Lilia shook her head, “Why don’t you use the Dragon Fang I gifted to you, darling?”.
Aster smiled.
“I can’t control annihilation to the point of not damaging my sword and it would be a shame if I end up destroying the precious gift you gave me when I started cultivating, besides I want to test this one… it’s the best I can create with Rigel’s flames right now, a peak stellar sword which base material is star iron and one hundred drops of my own blood, I named these models “Dragon Buster series”.
The purpose of the training swords was to help him train in the use of annihilation, so he limited the amount of the blood he mixed in the metal, to five drops, so that if he could develop a good amount of control over annihilation.
That being said of course he prepared some others for battle, it’s just that he hasn’t needed them so far… but now he needed to use a bigger amount of annihilation so a training sword won’t do the trick.
Aster smiled, his arms and chest were covered by a golden armor as he used the paragon body, golden flames exploded around his sword which he shoved in the barrier, the tip of the sword easily cut through the barrier as if it was butter.
“Now let’s see if my annihilation can stand up to the defense of a genesis manifestation hahaha”.
The sky illuminated in dazzling golden light which made almost all the soldiers from Luonto cover their eyes, but those who were at the star tribulation realm or above managed to witness the exact moment… when Aster destroyed the ancestral barrier of Makir.
*Crash*
The whole city trembled as the barrier exploded in tons of little transparent shards, Aster sighed.
“Well that puts an end to the surprise element, whatever”.
He pointed at the city, Sylas laughed and yelled in the communication system of the spaceship to all the army.
“Open fire!!!”.